Re: [pyOpenSSL] pyOpenSSL and select compatibility under Windows

[Jean-Paul C. <ex...@di...>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:44:39 +0100, Hugh Gibson <hg...@ab...> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We have a server written in Python using a select() loop on the main
>thread to drive socket IO, with our own HTTP 1.1 implementation. It uses
>worker threads to process requests. At present login to our AJAX
>application is handled by our own challenge/response system but we want
>to move to SSL.
>
>I'm trying to determine if pyOpenSSL sockets are compatible with
>select() under Windows so that we can slot them into place.
>
>It seems from http://docs.python.org/lib/module-select.html that there
>might be problems:
>    "On Windows, the underlying select() function is provided by the
>     WinSock library, and does not handle file descriptors that don't
>     originate from WinSock."
>
>Has anyone used this combination successfully?
>
>I've tried stunnel and that works fine enabling SSL connections to our
>server, but I need a way to determine if a connection came via stunnel
>or directly otherwise a client could connect directly to the server.

OpenSSL.SSL.Connection objects just wrap Python socket objects.  Since
the latter works with select, so does the former.

Jean-Paul